Y40-Y59: Drugs, medicaments and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use
Y42: Hormones and their synthetic substitutes and antagonists, not elsewhere classified
Subcodes of Y42:
- Y42.0: Glucocorticoids and synthetic analogues
- Y42.1: Thyroid hormones and substitutes
- Y42.2: Antithyroid drugs
- Y42.3: Insulin and oral hypoglycaemic [antidiabetic] drugs
- Y42.4: Oral contraceptives
- Y42.5: Other estrogens and progestogens
- Y42.6: Antigonadotrophins, antiestrogens, antiandrogens, not elsewhere classified
- Y42.7: Androgens and anabolic congeners
- Y42.8: Other and unspecified hormones and their synthetic substitutes
- Y42.9: Other and unspecified hormone antagonists
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